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First let me tell you what I'm trying to do and what I have to do it with.

I have two large hard drives and two DVD writers. One drive I store all my system files and software and the other is strictly for data.

What I want to do is backup my data to a removable DVD-rewriteable disc.

The first thing I did was format the disc. All went well. I set up the backup wizard to backup the data drive and set up the schedule. I then tried to perform the first backup. It started ok, but then told me to insert the DVD-RW in the drive. The disc was already in the drive. The only way I could get it to start was to push the tab "Insert Blank Media". It then started to perform the backup but quit at 67%. It's been backing up now for about 10 min. and shows 70%. What's wrong here?

Also, is there a way to create a shortcut to perform a backup to this disc "on the fly"?

To be honest using Windows Backup to a DVD is just not real reliable. Instead, I would recommend to either backup to another HDD/partition, or just manually copy and paste files that you wanted to backup to the DVDs/HDD/partition.

Thanks. It finally completed the backup. I took a look at the files and I guess I completely misunderstood the concept. I thought it would simply write over the existing files in a simple fashion. Not so. It creates a plethora of files I have no idea what they are. You're idea will definitely work. I was looking for something that would be scheduled and simple. Not

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